Gun control has reached absurd
limits in America. In Michigan an eight-year-old boy is
being prosecuted for pointing a toy gun at three other
youngsters and threatening to shoot them. If this had
happened in my day, every boy would have spent his youth
in prison.

We played guns when we weren't
playing baseball or football.

We had three variants: cowboys,
war, and cops and robbers. Our cap guns roaring through
rolls of caps, punctuated with extra loud BANG-BANGS and
insistences that "you're dead! I shot you dead!," would
have meant life sentences for all of us.

With all males locked up for the
duration, there would have been no procreation and no
one to pay Social Security for the retired.

The two goof balls bringing charges against the little boy
are Police Lt. Dennis Gruschow and Assistant County
Prosecutor Donald G. Ray.
[send him
email] Obviously,
neither has enough common sense to be allowed out of the
house, much less with the authority to arrest and
prosecute.

When Pennsylvania gun shop owner
Jack Weigand ordered a Dell laptop computer, the
company
refused to sell it to him. Handguns, the company
explained, imply, well, terrorism, and Dell is
prohibited under U.S. law from exporting computers to
terrorists.

It makes about as much sense as the
arrest of the little boy.

It gets worse. According to Larry
Pratt of
Gun Owners of America, prosecutors are now
criminalizing self-defense by prosecuting people who use
guns to
defend themselves against intruders in their homes.

Four men broke into Ronald Biggs'
Goldsboro, NC, residence and assaulted him with a
baseball bat. He broke up the attack by shooting one of
the assailants. His assailants were charged with
misdemeanors, and Biggs was charged with assault with a
deadly weapon.

Don Campbell of Port Huron,
Michigan, shot the assailant who broke into his store
and attacked him. The prosecutor plea bargained with the
assailant in exchange for the assailant's testimony
against Campbell for felonious use of a firearm.
Community pressure forced the prosecutor to drop the
charges he was fabricating.

Vietnam veteran and Maryland
"Citizen of the Year" Donald Arnold
recently lost his gun permit, because it came to
light that 33 years ago he got into a scuffle with a war
protester. According to Maryland's ridiculous attorney
general Joseph Curran, the scuffle means Maryland's
Citizen of the Year is too dangerous to have any gun
rights.

Great Britain and Australia are
thoroughly gun-controlled countries. The British are
allowed only shotguns and birdshot.

The two countries have the highest
violent crime rates in the developed world.

Do you remember when England had
very little crime and unarmed Bobbies (police)? Since
those halcyon days, the British have had their guns
confiscated, and are now being shot, raped, burgled,
robbed and assaulted at
record rates. Violent crime rates in Britain far
outstrip those in the U.S.

All licensed handgun owners were
confiscated in 1997-98 in order to prevent "legally held
handguns from falling into the wrong hands." London
murders with handguns promptly shot up 83 percent and
armed muggings rose 53 percent. The BBC reports that
residents of other cities also are experiencing high
rates of attack from armed criminals.

Self-defense has been criminalized.
Britons who use permitted shotguns to beat off assaults
in their homes are
dealt with harshly in the courts.

The insanity of the political
attack on guns and self-defense is obvious. A year ago
the Dutch Ministry of Justice published its
International Crime Victims Survey and, surprise, 26
percent of the British population were crime victims in
2000!

I have always wondered what the
real agenda of the gun control lobby is. Now I know.
Gun-controllers represent the criminal lobby. The
purpose of gun control is to make criminals safe when
they rob, burgle, rape and murder.

There can be no doubt about this
result. The Center for Defense Studies at King's
College, London
found that criminal use of handguns in Britain
increased 40 percent in the two years following the
handgun ban.

Not even a fool believes that gun
control disarms criminals, but it does ensure that only
criminals will have guns. Drugs are banned; yet drugs
are available almost everywhere —
even in prisons.